Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the ESPN.com Sports Desk
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
SPORTS, POLITICS, AND SEX COLLIDE IN HUNTER S. THOMPSON’S WILDLY POPULAR ESPN.COM COLUMNS.Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a century, Hunter S. Thompson devastated his readers with his acerbic wit and uncanny grasp of politics and history. His reign as….Read More
11 Books Similar to Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the ESPN.com Sports Desk
Generation of Swine
Hunter S. Thompson, celebrated author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, has been writing a weekly column for the San Francisco Examiner for the last two years. Those columns… Continue Reading Posted in: 1981, Biographies of Journalists, Essays, History, Journeys, Politics And Government
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Rich & Famous Biographies, Suicide, United States
Screwjack
Hunter S. Thompson's legions of fans have waited a decade for this book. They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Fiction, Short Stories
Post Office
Henry Chinaski is a low life loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial Post Office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and racetracks. Lurid, uncompromising and hilarious,… Continue Reading Posted in: Letter Carriers, Man Woman Relationships
Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie Trapped Like a Rat in MR Bill’s
This is the saga of what happens to campaign junkies behind the scenes of a victorious American presidential campaign. The book follows their orgies, their despair, and finally their terror… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Political Science, Politics And Government, Public Policy, State & Local Government
The Great Shark Hunt
America, with all its warts, lies naked under the laser-like scrutiny of legendary outlaw journalist and brilliant reporter Hunter S. Thompson. Fearlessly, he hurls himself into each assignment, gouges out… Continue Reading Posted in: Popular Culture, Social History
The Curse of Lono
A wild ride to the dark side of Americana The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Description And Travel, United States
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
A memoir of Hunter S Thompson that exposes the darkness at the heart of America: a nation that thralls to Bush's War on Terror, War on Evil, War on Iraq,… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, United States
Hell’s Angels
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Fiction, United States
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